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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Chall's Stage 4
Latin layer of language
Suffix
Affix
2. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Pre-English
Rate
Accent
3. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Vr
Curriculum referenced tests
Consonant Digraph
Phoneme
4. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Direct Instruction
Standard deviation
Standardized test
Suffix
5. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Diphthong
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Age equivalent
Joe Torgesen
6. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Standard deviation
Joe Torgesen
Standardized test
7. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Criterion referenced tests
Synthetic Instruction
8. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Visual Processing
Auditory Learners
IMSLEC
Receptive language
9. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Modern English
Linguistic Method
Digraph
Curriculum referenced tests
10. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Samuel T. Orton
Ability
James Hinshelwood
Matthew Effect
11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Achievement test
Trigraph
MSL
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
12. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Impulsivity
Anna Gillingham
Great Vowel Shift
Simultaneous teaching
13. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Cognitive Assessment
Linguistic Method
14. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Composite Score
Morpheme
Chall's Stage 3
Phonemic Awareness
15. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Chall's Stage 1
Linguistic Method
IDEA
16. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Pre-English
Age equivalent
Direct Instruction
17. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Closed Syllable
Standardized test
Chall's Stage 2
Universal Screening
18. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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19. State Board of Eduation
Derived Score
SBOE
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Cedilla
20. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Accommodation
V-e
Pre-English
Reliability
21. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Frank Smith
Percentile
Standard score
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
22. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Chall's Stage 3
Macron
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
23. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
ADHD
Social language
Morphology
24. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Cognitive Assessment
Modern English
Old English
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
25. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Phoneme
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
MSLE
26. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Learners
Phonics
James Hinshelwood
Oral Language
27. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
Standardized test
Pre-English
Anglo Saxon
28. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Norm-referenced tests
Tilde
Reliability
29. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Visual Learners
Reading Comprehension Support
Auditory Learners
Attention
30. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Raw score
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Greek layer of language
Combination
31. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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32. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kinesthetic
Matthew Effect
Simultaneous teaching
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
33. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Phonology
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Consonant
Letter naming Chart
34. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
IEP
Raw score
Reliability
Mastery level
35. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Six basic types of syllables
CTOPP
WIATII
36. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Battery
Multi-Sensory Approach
Dyslexia
Direct Instruction
37. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
MSLE
Expressive language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
38. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Standard score
Dyslexia
Keith Stanovich
Syllable
39. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Syllable
Semantics
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 1
40. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
NICHD
Diagnostic Teaching
Norm-Referenced Test
Chall's Stage 1
41. r-controlled syllable
Mastery level
Accuracy
Vr
Linguistic Method
42. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Chall's Stage 1
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
MSL
Morpheme
43. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Greek layer of language
SBOE
The Norman Conquest
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
44. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Tactile
Universal Screening
Consonant
45. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Impulsivity
Synthetic Instruction
Adolf Kusmaul
Multisensory
46. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Rate
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Vowel Digraph
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
47. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Closed Syllable
Great Vowel Shift
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
48. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Cedilla
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Base Word
49. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
MSLE
Middle English
Curriculum referenced tests
[-'le
50. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Cognitive Assessment
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Phonology